My 6g74 tt build

[n2nsanity]

400 miles in thanks to today's meet. Hasn't blown up or anything yet, so I'm happy.

Feels like clutch is slipping in lower rpm's. But after 4k rpm, wow

[n2nsanity]

On the way to a meet. 1st time leaving town with this thing.


Caution, might want to turn volume down a little. It get's stupid loud, lol.

[mb3000]

You weren't kidding about the volume!

[CoopKill]

Nice, any issues?

[n2nsanity]

Nice, any issues?

Clutch is slipping a little at lower RPM's. Hopefully that will go away on it's own, but pretty sure I will at least need to resurface the flywheel though.

Pretty sure I'm getting a backfire or misfire occasionally. Under acceleration with the a/c on and low rpm's or letting completely letting off the gas. I think this may be due to those champion plugs.

The "CEL on knock" feature in chrome works and I think it's pretty useful. My light flashed on a few times. I set it for 3 counts instead of the default of 5, so that's probably ok.

After flashing the ECU to disable all the missing sensors, the CEL is off of course and car is running much smoother.

I still have some oil leaks. The spots it leaves on the driveway make it look worse than it is. Every time I check it reads full, (might lose a qt every 2000 miles) but I won't be happy until they are all cleared up.

[n2nsanity]

You weren't kidding about the volume!

I'm not a big video person, but I'm trying. Windows up is probably a good idea, lol.

[n2nsanity]

504 miles and still kickin

[beepbeep]

It sounds great, Eddie! Great job so far!

[Uniuno]

Now that you've had it running for a while is there anything you would change about your setup (besides the trans lol (and sorry)) if you were to do it again? What boost are you running? Do you feel that the 9bs are "choking" the engine like everyone thinks they do?

Reason I ask is I am thinking about putting a stock 3.5L in mine with 9bs for now just to get the car running again while I save for building the engine and bigger turbos.

I appreciate the advice!

[n2nsanity]

Not sure I would have done much differently. Aside from an lsd and beefing up the fwd trans ahead of time, mostly little things.

I don't feel the 9b's are choking it, but something a little bigger would probably be more ideal.
I need some dyno time to really say and figure out which route I want to go. Just having a little fun with it for now

I think it would be worth it for you. There's not much to it. You did the tt and awd conversion already, so I'm sure you will do fine.
You will have some issues with the 74 oil pan and the tcase. There are a few options out there for that. I haven't decided or even looked into it too much because I'm keeping this car fwd for now. May just move the engine over to the vr4 project, but not sure yet. There are some downpipe fitment issues. I'm testing some ideas for that now. Probably just going to extend the front and rear precats.